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beclose

beclose verb: to shut up or in; enclose; enwrap.

Verb

beclose (third-person singular simple present becloses, present participle beclosing, simple past and past participle beclosed)

  1. (transitive) To shut up or in; enclose; enwrap.
    • It is our sensuality in which he is enclosed, and our kyndely [natural] substance is beclosed [beclosed, wrapped up] in Jesus Christ, with the blessed soul of Christ sitting in rest in the godhead.1994, Edward Peter Nolan, Cry out and write: a feminine poetics of revelation
    • He is our clothing that for love, wraps us, embraces us, and all becloses us, for tender love that he may never leave us, being to us all thing that is good as to my understanding.2003, Julian (of Norwich), Julia Bolton Holloway, Showing of love
  2. (transitive) To imprison.

beclose meaning in Tamil

beclose in Tamil

அமைதல், அமை

Forms of beclose

third-person singular presentbecloses
present participlebeclosing
past participlebeclosed
pastbeclosed

Origin of beclose

From Middle English beclosen, biclosen, alteration (due to Middle English closen) of earlier biclusen, from Old English beclȳsan (“to close, shut what is open, conclude, put an end to, shut up in a place, enclose, confine, imprison, shut out, exclude”), equivalent to be- + close. See also cluse.

Questions about beclose

What does beclose mean?
Beclose means to shut up or in; enclose; enwrap.
What is beclose in Tamil?
Beclose in Tamil is அமைதல், அமை. See Beclose meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is beclose?
Beclose is a verb.
What is the past tense of beclose?
The past tense of beclose is beclosed.

Words near beclose in the dictionary

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  4. beclomethasone
  5. beclomethasone dipropionate
  6. beclose
  7. beclosing
  8. beclothe
  9. beclothed
  10. beclothes
  11. beclothing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beclose (page history and authors); beclose (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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